A cold one, Photo by RobinMoweryBeer is a fermented alcoholic beverage which is heavily regulated by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. See also Wine.

It had been claimed popularly that Chico consumes 1% of all the beer in California. However, the Chico News and Review ran a story on Chico's urban legends back on November 8, 2001. At that time Steve Mosher, the general sales manager for Stash Distributing reported that "there's no more beer sold [in Chico] than anywhere else."